It had been almost a year since the Wehrmacht's 7th Panzer Division, Germany's best at long-distance raids, had not been on the road as it was today, but when they were ordered to pursue Patton's defeated 8th Army, they still ran as fast as they could.

Everyone regained the feeling of being in Poland and France for a long time, when it seemed that the enemy was all paper paste and would collapse at the touch of a button, so that the daily battle turned into a constant chase and chase, until the ends of the earth, and so a country perished under the invincible steel torrent of the German Army.

Now everyone joined the army on the road again, everyone rode in barrel cars, armored vehicles and tanks, all the way east in the dusty desert, chasing the soldiers of the 8th Army who were also frantically fleeing in front of them as fast as possible. Positional warfare, which seemed to be the main theme of desert warfare, suddenly disappeared, and the only reasons that could stop people were fatigue and fuel shortages.

The 7th Panzer Division was proud of the 7th Panzer Division, and they were arguably one of the first Panzer Divisions established in Germany, the predecessor of which was the 26th Hussar Division commissioned by Accardor to Rommel to build, and they once swept through the Allied army of 100,000 in France, capturing almost three times the number of enemy troops of their own army.

Before coming to Africa, this division had split some units to form a new armored division, but even so, more than half of the soldiers in the division had the French Assault Medal, and more than 1,000 soldiers had the Iron Cross.

The main reason why this division disappeared like stealth in the previous battles was that Rommel had always left his old base in the rear as a strategic reserve, and most of the previous battles of Tobruk and Alexander were trench warfare, and Rommel was reluctant to throw this unit, which was known for its agility in assault, into positional warfare.

Now, the most suitable time had come for this division, and they began a long-distance and long running operation, as they had just arrived in Africa. Now, in addition to the roar of the engines and the jolting of the up-and-down, they were accompanied by the 30,000 elite grenadiers of the 7th Mechanized Infantry Corps.

The Luftwaffe's Stuka dive bombers were a late arrival, and the shorter-range dive bombers could no longer go deep into pursuit of the fleeing Patton forces after bypassing Alexander's British air defense circle, after all, they were not strong in dealing with attacks by American aircraft. Ever since the U.S. Air Force fought to defeat 19 fighters and shoot down 17 Stuka that bypassed the defensive line to attack logistics depots, German pilots in North Africa were strictly forbidden to use slow Stuka to attack targets behind enemy lines.

In the morning, the main force supporting the paratroopers was the butcher bombers, which had to take off from as far away as Crete. However, it seems that the effect of using strategic bombers to support front-line ground operations is not very good, because the requirements for such aircraft are relatively high, and in most cases they can only take off far from the front line, and the timeliness of support is too poor.

A German Leopard was racing along the road, the sand rolling up from the tracks made it look fast, and in fact the Leopard was not slow on the road, at least a little faster than the Tiger in terms of maneuverability. Soon, however, the tank slowed down, as the soldiers sitting on it and the commander peeking out of the turret saw two American tanks in the middle of the road at about the same time.

"Advance slowly! Infantry go up and see the situation! Let the people behind surround you from both sides! It's an M4 Sherman tank, be careful!" The commander waved his hand, and the Leopard tank that was advancing fast just now stopped, and the 4 infantry sitting on it jumped down from both sides, and on a half-track armored vehicle followed by the Leopard tank, more German grenadiers also jumped out of the armored car, and then behind, another soldier on the Leopard tank was also getting out of the car, and then a truck, constantly unloading more infantry, and in less than a minute, the elite German infantry spread out a huge offensive formation, and tried to approach the American tanks from both sides of the road。

"Safety! Both tanks were destroyed inside, and grenades were dropped!" finally a grenadier climbed onto the wreckage of the American tank and shouted loudly to the soldiers around him. However, when they approached here, they found that it was not only these two American tanks, but also a large number of American half-track transporters and several 105 mm field guns abandoned on the road.

"It's a barricade! The Americans don't seem to dare to stay and fight us. Standing on the tank, the commander of the Leopard put down the telescope in his hand and said with a sigh. They had been in pursuit for several hours, and it seemed that they were not far from the American rearguard, but so far they had not officially engaged these American forces.

"Get the tanks to come forward and push these barricades onto the roadbed on both sides of the road! With a wave of the commander's hand, another Leopard tank also drove over, and the two tanks approached the American tank at a relatively slow speed, and then pushed the two steel giants under the roadbed with full speed.

The German Leopard tank was designed with a lot of power to spare, which is one of the main reasons why the German tank can urgently install the front armor plate at the Kiev Vehicle Plant.

Soon the German troops continued on the road, chasing them into the distance along the dense rutted tracks of the road, and if they could entangle the routs before the American troops reached the Suez Canal, then the German attack on the Suez Canal would be a little more certain.

"Hell, did these Americans do it on purpose?" After a long pursuit, I saw two more American tanks and a pile of rags blocking the middle of the road, after all, the failure rate of American tanks is now higher than that of mature and reliable Leopard tanks, so if you continue to chase and kill all the way, you can always see American equipment abandoned on the side of the road.

"Don't stop, just knock those two American tanks out of the way, and then chase forward!" said the Leopard tank commander at the head with a frown, he saw the opponent's turret facing his side, and instinctively felt a hint of danger. So when the distance was close to about 500 meters, he immediately added his order: "Go over to the left roadbed and see if the opponent's turret moves! Slow down and get closer!"

As soon as the words fell, on the American tank opposite, the 76 mm caliber cannon suddenly spewed flames, obviously this time there were people in the tank left by the other side, and the Americans wanted to fight a sniper battle here to slow down the speed of the Germans pursuing them.

The American armor-piercing shell instantly hammered into the front armor plate of the German tank hull, rubbing out a spark and then ricocheting, and the ejected shell flew out at a strange angle with the front armor, just hitting the driving lights in front of the Leopard tank's hull. Unfortunately, the cannonball's light flew right towards the infantryman sitting in the back, smashing one of the infantryman's heads to pieces.

Blood splattered the soldiers around him, and a startled soldier didn't know what was happening, but the soldiers next to him screamed and jumped under the car. At this time, the second American tank also fired, and the shell also hit the Leopard tank in the head, but the front armor of the Leopard tank was still not penetrated, and the shell left a deep crater on it and disappeared.

"Boom!" The German armored troops were definitely not standing and were beaten, they fired their own shells as quickly as possible, and the 75 mm cannon that returned fire with the armor-piercing shells was obviously more powerful than the 76 mm cannon on the Sherman tank, and the armor of the American tank was indeed not as good as the Leopard tank.

So the shell hit one of the two American tanks cleanly, and then easily pierced the armor of the tank, and with a torrent of steel flying everywhere throughout the tank's cabin, beating the soldiers inside into a real sieve. When the armor is pierced, there is only a small bullet hole left by an armor-piercing shell, but the shell inside will cause the armor to shatter, and dozens of fragments will hit the unlucky person almost instantly.

"Boom!" The American tank on the opposite side immediately exploded, ending the suffering of the American soldiers inside, and the huge smoke and the shock wave of the surrounding sand explosion were lifted, and everyone's vision was blocked for a while.

The remaining American tank started to drive down the roadbed, avoiding the black smoke and trying to fire at the German tank again, but not far behind the German tank, there was already a Leopard tank that saw the front firing, and it was also the first time to drive down the roadbed, and just saw this American tank, so he fired without saying a word.

This cannon hit the turret of the American tank, and it also easily penetrated the turret armor of the Sherman tank, followed by the Sherman tank also exploded, and the battle was bloody but ended in just a few tens of seconds. The Germans lost one infantryman, and the front armor of the Leopard tank at the head was cut into two shallow holes, which looked like it needed to be repaired and replaced, while the American side lost two tanks, successfully slowing down the German pursuit.

"Car No. 2, continue the pursuit, the front line is under your command. I'm waiting here for the battalion headquarters repair team in the back. The captain of the lead car said depressedly on the radio: "Catch up with the American bastards and greet them with a few more armor-piercing shells for me!"